Attacks on Journalists and “New Media” in Mexico’s Drug War (SWJ Blog)

Attacks on Journalists and “New Media” in Mexico’s Drug War (SWJ Blog): "Attacks on Journalists and “New Media” in Mexico’s Drug War:
A Power and Counter Power Assessment
by John P. Sullivan

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This paper examines the impact of attacks on journalists on media reportage within Mexico’s drug wars, known as “la Inseguridad” in Mexico. It examines two concepts in communication theory (agenda-setting theory and “mind framing” for power and counter-power) to frame the impact of drug cartel information operations (info ops). Specifically, It examines cartel attacks on media outlets, and kidnappings and assassinations of journalists by narco-cartels to gauge the potential impact of the attacks in terms of censorship, cartel co-option of reportage, and the use of new media (horizontal means of mass self-communication)."